Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20287

...the cosmic drowse of ignorant Force

Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns

And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl.¹

I am not disposed to change “suns” to “stars” in the line about the creative slumber of the ignorant Force; “stars” does not create the same impression and brings in a different tone in the rhythm and the sense. This line and that which follows it bring in a general subordinate idea stressing the paradoxical nature of the creation and the contrasts which it contains, the drowsed somnambulist as the mother of the light of the suns and the activities of life. It is not intended as a present feature in the darkness of the Night.

1946

¹ p.1.

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